I saw this snippet in a Reuters article that was already noteworthy for China reaching the bottom of the slippery slope in stop-human-causation-of-global-warming argumentation1:

President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of Kyoto in 2001, arguing it would cost U.S. jobs and that it wrongly excluded 2012 goals for poorer nations such as China.

So according to Reuters, the U.S. was “in Kyoto” prior to 2001? That’s news to me. I don’t recall the Senate ever ratifying the treaty; in fact, I don’t recall President Clinton even sending the treaty to the Senate for ratification ? no doubt on account of the Senate’s unambiguous Senate Resolution 98, introduced by Sens. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), which was passed unanimously (95-0) in 1997 and stated, among other things,

the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter …

A 95-to-zip preemptive “NO” to a treaty? That is a far, far cry from the two-thirds majority needed to pass it, right? Not that it was ever sent to the Senate ? so how can Reuters blame Bush for “pulling the U.S. out of Kyoto” when the U.S. was never in it?

Note

1. Here was China’s noteworthy comment that I said represented reaching the bottom of the slope of all the insipid suggested “solutions” to “man-made global warming”: deliberately cut the production of human beings! In the article:

“China is already doing a lot,” said Hu Tao, of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration.

He said China’s one-child per couple policy introduced in the early 1980s, for instance, had a side-effect of braking global warming by limiting the population to 1.3 billion against a projected 1.6 billion without the policy.

“This has reduced greenhouse gas emissions,” he told a conference in Oslo last month. China is the number two emitter of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, behind the United States and ahead of Russia.

Take that, feckless banners of light bulbs and limiters of toilet-paper squares!